Time for a pulp countdown now, so here's my top 10 book titles that would make great prog rock album titles!
Everyone loves a 10 minute drum solo, right?
Everyone loves a 10 minute drum solo, right?
At #10: Murdock's Acid Test! Side one is mellow acid jazz, but side two is all stream of consciousness poetry and percussion...
At #9: Into Plutonian Depths! A concept album where Chinese war gongs, the Wlsh harp and a Hammond organ evoke the legend of Persephone...
At #8: Bluebeard's Seventh Wife! Reminiscent of early Soft Machine this album also includes an underwater piano AND an electric glockenspiel...
At #7: Thongo At The End Of Time! Trippy, free-form and eclectic harmonies interspersed with chants from the Upanishads make this album ideal for meditation and/or hot yoga...
At #6: Don't Tempt The Hangman! Old school folk acoustic songs with perhaps more hurdy-gurdy than is strictly necessary or bearable...
At #5: The Light Of Lilith! Unkindly reviewed by Melody Maker as "barely listenable" this has found a more sympathetic audience recently, and is now hailed as foreshadowing drum & bass lounge music...
At #4: Conscience Interplanetary! Ambient dub soundscapes melding effortlessly with the whispered poetry of e.e. cummings into an ASMR cosmic head massage...
At #3: Death Is A Ruby Light! I hope you like percussion, because that's basically all this is, in mono to boot...
At #2: Space, Time and Nathaniel. Pitched as a War Of The Worlds sequel the lyrical Moogs and clarinet swirls depict the reawakening of the Earth, as the Martian red weed gives way to daffodils and dragonflies...
And at #1: Epitaph For A Dead Beat! A cacophony of eclectic jazz fusion harmonies, supported by the bells of St. Oswald's church in Lymington. A classic...
More pulp countdowns another time. Stay cool cats...
